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Wednesday February 28, 2007
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The big-box stores are coming to D.C. And neighborhood "mom and pop" shops are worried. Now, a new effort is underway to try to protect D.C.'s local businesses. Kojo explores the business environment for small-scale entrepreneurs.
Michael Shuman, Vice President for Enterprise Development, Training and Development Corporation; Author, "The Small-Mart Revolution: How Local Businesses Are Beating the Global Competition" (Berrett-Koehler)
Manny Hidalgo, Executive Director, Latino Economic Development Corporation
Harriet Tregoning, Acting Director, D.C. Office of Planning.
Before the Civil War, more than 35,000 African Americans relocated from the U.S. to Canada. Hear about a landmark court case that established the rules regarding slave extradition, and how a chance archeological discovery in a Toronto schoolyard led historians to a better understanding of the “Blackburn Riots of 1833,” the city of Detroit's first race riots.
Karolyn Smardz Frost, archaeologist, historian, and Executive Director, the Ontario Historical Society; also author of "I've Got a Home in Glory Land: A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
It's an attempt to restore hope and bring education into the lives of homeless and often-orphaned children. Meet a local DC woman who's mission to build 100 libraries/reading rooms across Africa over the next 10 years.
Jane Kinney Meyers, Founder and President, The Lubuto Library Project, Inc.
Deborah Chungu, native Zambian; and a volunteer with the Lubuto Library Project
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